Gerald L. Bray
Research Professor of Divinity
Beeson Divinity School
History and Doctrine
 Divinity Hall
glbray@samford.edu
205-726-2991

Gerald Bray teaches in the areas of church history and historical theology. In 2006, he was named research professor and is currently engaged in writing and speaking on a variety of theological issues. A prolific author, Bray has published many scholarly articles and books, including  in the "Contours of Christian Theology" series (of which he is also the general editor) and . He served as editor for and, which contains the Henrician Canons of 1535 and the Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticarum, and for three volumes in the Ancient Christian Commentary Series (; ; and ). He is the editor of the Anglican theological journal Churchman. He edited , the first volume of the Reformation Commentary on Scripture. His systematic theology  was released by Crossway in 2012 and his historical theology  was published in 2014. In 2019, he published a theological commentary on the pastoral epistles. Bray is a minister in the Church of England.

Education

  • MLitt, DLitt, University of Paris-Sorbonne
  • BA, McGill University

Selected Books

  •  James Clarke & Co., 2023.
  •  James Clarke & Co., 2019.
  •  T&T Clark, 2019.
  •  InterVarsity Press, 2019.
  •  James Clarke & Co., 2018.
  • Procès-verbal de l’assemblée générale extraordinaire du clergé de France. Librairie Droz, 2017.
  •  Baker Academic, 2016.
  •  Crossway, 2014.
  •  Crossway, 2012.
  •  The Latimer Trust, 2009.
  • Records of Convocation (20 vols.). Boydell & Brewer, 2005-2006.

Involvement

  • Ecclesiastical Law Society
  • Church of England Record Society
  • Latimer Trust
  • Tyndale Fellowship

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